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Biden calls Russia's war in Ukraine a 'strategic failure'01:20 Biden meets with Ukrainian refugees in Poland03:01 Lviv hit with two Russian missile strikes, at least 5 injured02:56 Dickerson: “We can do better than that in the United States, and yet it's still better than we've done in other circumstances” 04:22 Fmr.…

Hundreds of Muscovites line up outside the first McDonald's restaurant in the Soviet Union on its opening day, in Moscow. Photo / AP Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, another powerful symbol opened its doors in the middle of Moscow: a gleaming new McDonald's. It was the first American…

A strong case can be made that Vladimir Putin’s blood-soaked invasion of Ukraine has galvanized the American people like no foreign event since the 1989 breaching of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin’s mad-tyrant drive has led to an outpouring of emotional support for…

Loammi Wolf is a constitutional law specialist who runs the initiative Democracy for Peace. On Friday morning we woke up to the news that the Russian army had targeted the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. If one of the Russian missiles had deflected, we would have had the biggest nuclear catastrophe…

Subscribe to our channel on YouTube Get all FIGHTMAG video content Knockdown Lockdown: WKN World Championship Kickboxing in Belfast A knockout “Knockdown Lockdown” international kickboxing “made in Prokick” event took place at Stormont Hotel in Belfast late November, when Northern Ireland’s Johnny “Swift” Smith squared off against Korea’s Lee Sung-hyun…

While there are major historical and, above all, geographical forces always in play in shaping Anglo-Irish relations, it is also true that individual politicians mattered. This is manifestly evident as one scans through the copious files just released by the Department of the Taoiseach. And it is also true that…

N orthern Ireland’s film and TV industry is going from strength to strength, with Netflix and Paramount among the latest US studios to bring projects to the region. While Line Of Duty and Bloodlands were some of the highlights of 2021, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and the third and final season…

R esearchers studying the backgrounds of Great War soldiers from a part of Belfast traditionally associated with loyalism have discovered that 74 of them were Irish speakers. Many of the gaeilgeoiri from inner east Belfast who fought in the First World War were Protestant, the historical project found. The 18-month…

NewsUKHome NewsEmergency services arrive at scene at around 1pm on Tuesday Large fire breaks out at Belfast docks Firefighters have been dispatched to tackle a large blaze that broke out at a metal scrapyard in the docks area of Belfast on Tuesday afternoon. Photos and video shared on social media…

A man who was arrested by detectives investigating the murder of a man shot dead in front of his family in Belfast has been released on bail, police said. Mark Hall was shot through the window of his family’s west Belfast home last Saturday. A 37-year-old man was arrested in…